The main legal point established in the judgment is the requirement for extra-judicial confessions to be voluntary, free from blemish, and corroborated by reliable evidence. The court emphasized that suspicion cannot be a substitute for proof and highlighted the need for the prosecution to establish the veracity of the confession.

JUDGMENT :

A.V.RAVINDRA BABU, J.

This Criminal Revision Case is filed by the petitioners, who were the appellants in Criminal Appeal No.23 of 2007, on the file of II Additional Sessions Judge, Kurnool at Adoni ("Additional Sessions Judge" for short), challenging the judgment, dtd. 13/5/2008, whereunder the learned Additional Sessions Judge, dismissed the Criminal Appeal confirming the conviction and sentence imposed against the appellants in C.C.No.38 of 2003, on the file of Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Alur, for the offences under Ss. 304-A and 201 of the Indian Penal Code ("I.P.C." for short).

2. The parties to this Criminal Revision Case will hereinafter be referred to as described before the trial Court for the sake of the convenience.

3. The State, represented by the Inspector of Police, Alur, filed a charge sheet in Crime No.43 of 2002 of Holagunda Police Station, alleging the offences under Ss. 304-A and 201 of I.P.C.

4. The case of the prosecution, in brief, as set out in the charged sheet is as follows:

(i) A.1 and A.2 are the brothers and they are residents of Chinnaheta village, Holagunda Mandal. One Boya Mallappa, S/o Boya Kesanna and one Boya Ayyappa, S/o Boya Kesanna (hereinafter will be referred to as "deceased 1 and 2") were also brothers and they were residents of Santhakudlur village, Adoni Mandal. Their dead bodies were recovered from Cantor trench, near Chakaligutta of Peddaheta village, Holagunda Mandal.

(ii) Deceased 1 and 2 were doing arrack business since about one year prior to their death. Ten days prior to 19/8/2002, they died. They used to go to Hadligi village in Karnataka State to bring the arrack sachets and used to sell the same in their village, Santhakudluru. As usual, they went to Hadligi village to purchase arrack sachets about 10 days prior to 19/8/2002. On 10/8/2002 or 9/8/2002 while they were returning with arrack sachets during night time to avoid police and Excise officers, they came near Chinnaheta village in Holagunda Mandal. On the way, they came into contact with the electrical wire put up around the fields of A.1 to protect his Sunflowers crop from animals. So, the deceased 1 and 2 contacted with electricity and died on the spot. On the next day morning, A.1 went to his fields and found two dead bodies fallen in the fields with two bags of arrack sachets by their side. Having noticed the dead bodies and found that they died due to electrocution from the electric wire fenced by him, he feared and tried to conceal the same. He disclosed the incident to A.2 during night. Both A.1 and A.2 with an intention to screen away the evidence of the death of deceased 1 and 2, at about 10- 00 p.m., took the two dead bodies along with two bags of arrack sachets in a double bullock cart from the fields of A.1. They took the dead bodies to cantor trench situated near Chakaligutta and the fields of one Gowramma. They buried two dead bodies in the said trench and also two bags of arrack sachets. They did not disclose the incident to anybody till 29/8/2002.

(iii) Ten days subsequent to the burial of the dead bodies by A.1 and A.2, rumors spread in the village that two dead bodies were buried in the cantor trench. On that L.W.1-Reddy Seetharami Reddy, Village Secretary and L.W.6-Talari Dodda Basappa went to the said place on 19/8/2002 at 8-00 p.m. They found two dead bodies and two bags of arrack sachets there. L.W.1 gave report to Sub-Inspector of Police, Holagunda Police Station and on his report, the Head Constable registered it as a case in Crime No.43 of 2003 under Ss. 302 and 201 of I.P.C. suspecting that both of them were murdered. The Inspector of Police, Aluru, during investigation found that they were not murdered, but they died due to electrocution due to live electric wire put up by A.1 around fields and after coming to know that A.1 and A.2 buried the said dead bodies to screen the evidence.

(iv) On 29/8/2002 both the accused approached L.W.13- Harijana Dasari Krishna Murthy and dis